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Wednesday, March 14, 2018

CAUGHT • The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (Studio Theatre) by Andrea

An art installation titled Devil in a Red Dress greets the guests downstairs at the Rep’s studio theatre. Featuring the work of visiting Chinese conceptual artist, Lin Bo, the showing is c…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:34AM
Wednesday, March 7, 2018

ANYTHING GOES • New Line Theatre by Andrea

The racy shenanigans and silly scheming going on among the passengers aboard a transatlantic cruise in Cole Porter’s, Anything Goes, offered a welcomed breather from the gloom of the Great…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:19PM
Thursday, February 15, 2018

BLACKBIRD • St. Louis Actors’ Studio by Andrea

The air in a dreary office lunchroom is thick when Ray finds himself there with Una. They haven’t seen each other since their relationship ended fifteen years ago -- when he was 40 and she…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:10PM
Saturday, December 23, 2017

REMNANT • Mustard Seed Theatre by Andrea

Mustard Seed open its 11th season with a revival of the theatre’s debut production, Ron Reed’s Remnant. It’s a post-apocalyptic Christmas story that takes place 75 years after a catast…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:04PM
Tuesday, December 5, 2017

A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE • St. Louis Actors’ Studio by Andrea

A severed hand sits on the box office desk at the Gaslight Theater -- a little something to get you in the mood for Martin McDonagh’s 2010 dark comedy, A Behanding in Spokane, continuing S…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:18AM
Friday, November 10, 2017

TITUS ANDROGYNOUS • YoungLiars by Andrea

Spilling out on the 4th floor ballroom of the Centene Center is a YoungLiars revamp of Shakespeare’s goriest play, Titus Andronicus. Adapted and directed by producing director Chuck Harper…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:54PM
Sunday, October 1, 2017

LIZZIE • New Line Theatre by Andrea

Just about everyone is familiar with the infamous story of Lizzie Borden, who went to trial for hacking her father and stepmother to death with a hatchet (or an axe, as the children’s rhym…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:24PM
Monday, September 25, 2017

THE FEAST • St. Louis Actors' Studio by Andrea

Poor Matt. His relationship with his girlfriend isn’t as sunny as it appears, his career as an artist has hit a slump, and there are some really creepy noises coming from his toilet. That�…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:18AM
Monday, September 11, 2017

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME • The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis by Andrea

The Rep kicks off its 51st season with Simon Stephens’ Tony Award-winning play, based on Mark Haddon’s 2003 novel. The Curious Incident revolves around Christopher Boone, a 15-year-old b…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:33PM
Monday, August 28, 2017

UNCLE VANYA: VALIANTLY ACCEPTING NEXT YEAR’S AGONY • Rebel And Misfits Productions by Andrea

There’s a malaise that blankets the Serebryakov family estate, and in Rebel and Misfits Productions’ second installment in its Immersive Theatre Project series, a private residence …

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:36AM
Thursday, August 24, 2017

IN THE HEIGHTS • R-S Theatrics by Andrea

Life in the New York City borough of Washington Heights is painted with spirited strokes in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical, In the Heights, and R-S Theatrics brings it to …

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:33AM
Monday, August 21, 2017

SNOW WHITE • Equally Represented Arts by Andrea

ERA’s Snow White, presented as the local headliner for this year’s St. Lou Fringe Festival, showcases the unconventional whimsy that the company has become known for. Developed and adapt…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:48AM
Monday, August 14, 2017

THE COLOR OF AUGUST • Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble by Andrea

Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble continues its "Season of Adaptation" with The Color of August, by Spanish playwright Paloma Pedrero. Written in 1988, and translated and adapted for this prod…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:48AM
Monday, August 7, 2017

RAGTIME • Stray Dog Theatre by Andrea

Stray Dog closes out its season with an excellent production of Terrence McNally’s sweeping musical adaptation, Ragtime. Based on E. L. Doctorow’s 1975 novel, it places us at an int…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:22AM
Monday, July 10, 2017

LABUTE NEW THEATER FESTIVAL I • St. Louis Actors' Studio by Andrea

The fifth annual LaBute New Theater Festival has chosen five finalists to debut this year, along with five high school finalists that were presented as stage readings this past Saturday. The…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:42PM
Sunday, July 2, 2017

Grand Center Theatre Crawl • St. Louis Public Radio and Grand Center by Andrea

The fifth annual Grand Center Theatre Crawl kicked off this past Friday in the Grand Center Arts district. With a map and program of performances in hand, patrons were free to rotate through…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:54AM
Saturday, June 24, 2017

MONSTERS • Stray Dog Theatre by Andrea

In an unfinished basement somewhere in St. Louis, Andi discovers her brother-in-law in her basement with a man, bound and gagged, and tied to a chair. This is the jumping off point for St. L…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:54PM
Thursday, June 15, 2017

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR • The Muny by Andrea

When Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s concept album was released in 1970, it was a big deal. Considered blasphemous by some, Superstar depicts the last week of Jesus of Nazareth’s life…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:18AM
Sunday, April 16, 2017

SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET • Stray Dog Theatre by Andrea

Anybody hungry?Stray Dog Theatre invites audiences to “Attend the tale...” in their latest offering, Stephen Sondheim’s brilliant, meaty musical thriller, Sweeney Todd. With a 2007 fil…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:06PM
Friday, March 24, 2017

Fifth Annual St. Louis Theater Circle Awards • Skip Viragh Center for the Arts by Andrea

The fifth anniversary of the St. Louis Theater Circle Awards is in the books, and as always, the number of talented individuals and companies in town never cease to amaze.Congratulations to …

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:18AM
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

A Bit of News... • Yes, I’m gonna use the word “I” and “My” a lot by Andrea

For those first hearing this, I'm bowing out of the St. Louis Theater Circle. This is nothing at all personal, as I value all of the new friendships I’ve made through the Circle, and this …

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:52PM
Friday, October 7, 2016

CELEBRATION • New Line Theatre by Andrea

Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt’s musical is pretty much devoid of any conventional narrative, with roots that reach back to ancient ritual and the winter solstice -- the planet’s shortest …

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:44PM
Monday, October 3, 2016

REMEMBER ME • Shakespeare in the Streets: Maplewood by Andrea

Shakespeare in the Streets, one of the outreach programs under Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. Combining a community’s individuality and history…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:37AM
Friday, September 30, 2016

FOLLIES • The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis by Andrea

The Rep’s 50th anniversary season kickoff was met with a palpable buzz -- and for good reason. While comfortably residing within the canon of Sondheim musicals, Follies is not often produc…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 10:52AM
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Love? Actually... • R-S Theatrics by Andrea

Dedicated to presenting thought provoking St. Louis premieres, R-S Theatrics is at it again. R-S opens its “Season of Semi-Requited Love” with a collection of mostly musical one-acts to …

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:49AM
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

TELL ME ON A SUNDAY • New Line Theatre by Andrea

New Line Theatre closed its 25th anniversary season with an unlikely choice. It was an intimate, one-act, one-person musical about a British girl, Emma, living in the States and steering her…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:26AM
Monday, August 15, 2016

BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL • Stray Dog Theatre by Andrea

In 1992, Weekly World News published an outrageous, recurring story about a “bat child” spotted in a southern cave in West Virginia. Keythe Farley, Brian Flemming (book) and Laurence O'K…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:21AM
Thursday, July 14, 2016

GREY GARDENS • Max & Louie Productions by Andrea

In 1975, a documentary by Albert and David Maysles related the story of two cloistered, interdependent, eccentric residents living in a wealthy East Hampton neighborhood. After years of pros…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:26PM
Sunday, July 3, 2016

COMPANY • Insight Theatre Company by Andrea

When Company opened in 1970, it was considered a “concept musical.” Abandoning a linear narrative, its vignettes center around a milestone birthday for Robert, a single guy living in New…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:36PM
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

ATOMIC • New Line Theatre by Andrea

The origins of the atomic bomb don’t initially sound like your typical musical theatre fare. But Danny Ginges and Philip Foxman’s Australian import about the unleashing of the world’s …

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:58AM
Friday, June 17, 2016

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM • Shakespeare Festival St. Louis by Andrea

Royal nuptials, a romantic mis-match, an amateur theatre troupe, and a band of mischievous fairies in an enchanted wood. What could happen, right? You’ll find out in Shakespeare Festival S…

SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:30AM

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